Sayonara

Personally I have serious issues with the major organised religions, however I am not about to draw conclusions about their validity and I certainly wouldn't question your right to believe whatever you wish to believe. I have to say I too don't see any reason why evolution, the big bang and god's creation of the world have to be mutually exclusive. Creationism deals only with the formation of this planet and the beginnings of life - evolution and the big bang are not descriptions of either of these things. Like IMI said, the big bang and evolution could well be the tools of another agent, be it the universe, God, or great A'Tuin. If I were a god (not that I wish to offend anyone with my blasphemy) and I was planning to create life, I would build in some sort of evolutionary processes. It makes sense. After all, it's no good creating life if the whole bloody lot dies off the second its environment changes. Evolution is a good idea and the suggestion that the Ultimate Intelligence in the universe wouldn't have thought of it is a bit silly.

Yes. I had a nice chat with him too about content theft after someone e-mailed those "crap kids pics" of his around the offices of the planet.

When the great "They" rears its ugly head, someone who hasn't done their research is never far behind.

5 sounds like fun. Was it really that bad?

Yet. I'm a 25-year-old graduate and I live with a monkey.

Your main problem will be keeping the microbes active until they're needed, not engineering their "self destruct" process. :-/

I suppose he could just feed all his documents to a cow. That would be easiest.

Think "Ruminants" YT What GhostrideR needs is a cellulase-producing bacterial culture from a cow's digestive system.

I ignored "will they grow up looking exactly the same?" and assumed that "will they have the same personalities? will they have the same IQ?" was the actual question.

But it has GUN in the name. You could make an EMP gun

Exactly where is this archive located? The closest thing I can find to a schematic archive is this wonderful page: http://www.freeinfosociety.com/projects/ion.html (*Petitions for YT to build one of these mothers*).

Patients with full-blown AIDS are often critically afflicted by diseases and parasites that the average human always carries. It's only because their immune system is knocked out that these things are able to flourish. For instance there are parasites you are carrying in your gut right now that are harmless to you, but with certain parts of your immune system disabled they could represent a life-threatening infestation. Perhaps the average person is exposed to TB more frequently than they are exposed to leprosy. I would have thought this is so, seeing as TB sweeps through populations (depending on which country you're in) and leprosy does not.

/me does the dance of Triumph * Go Daisy * Go Daisy * \o/

Believe me Jonathon, someone whose pages consist of giant embedded objects in proprietary formats and browser-specific <marquee> tags that distort even an MSIE window to 1600*1200 is not in a position to criticise anybody else, no matter how large their archive is. A good archive advertises itself, and not by joining forums to make 1 or 2 posts. The ability to throw something together in Dreamweaver does not a web developer make. http://www.w3.org ps - the fact that you told bare-faced lies in your first post doesn't do your credibility any favours, however I am going to investigate this archive of yours more thoroughly.

Me neither. Plus I use both Google Adsense and Google Adwords, and of course they have the Labs. Nobody else has those things

A pint of glass sounds oddly refreshing. Fibre optic cables are made of glass, aren't they? How are they so flexible?

You ain't no nun.

The existence of tachyons has been theorised for a long time, but I was not aware their existence had been demonstrated experimentally.

Ooooooohhh... ages.

Saying "syringed blood is dark red" doesn't help anyone if you can't provide a reason - in terms of colour - why "dark red" is different to "red".

Wildly random guess: The simplest explanation is that the agent causing TB is more common.

$65k is a lot to pay for a pearl necklace.

If we do that, people won't be able to see how funny the site is.

We all know that blood is not coloured blue as in 0000FF, but that's not where I was going in reply #4. You can tell that by my cunning use of the words that said what I meant. My thinking was that if it were possible to show that venous blood is more blue than arterial blood (EG FF001A compared to FF0000) then this might explain how the original question came about. Some people (mentioning no names) are far too obsessed with proving others "wrong".

I was under the impression that oxygen-haemoglobin complex is a different colour to haemoglobin on its own, despite the presence of iron. However it does make more sense that this colour comes from the lining of the minor vessels rather than the blood itself. Any sources? ps - note how I said "more", as opposed to de facto. [Edit] Also, I just recalled that carbon monoxide binds with haemoglobin to form a complex that has a very bright red colour. If that complex can change the reflected wavelengths of haemoglobin, why can't the oxygen-haemoglobin complex be a different colour to haemoglobin on its own? Anyone?